Steven WJ Richards Posted April 12 CID Share Posted April 12 Looking for advice. My broadband provider uses Dedicated server in London. All traffic goes through that. However, I cannot find this on the list of servers. Can it be added so that I can monitor my broadband speed over a period of time? If so, how do I go about it? Frank225 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted April 12 CID Share Posted April 12 Hi Steven, welcome! When you test at TestMy.net you're testing the connection from your home, through your providers network, out to the internet and then to my servers. You only need to consider your own location when choosing one of my locations to test from. Usually TMN will do a good job of choosing for you. Based on your IP address, TMN would pick UK servers to test from. You can also visit the Mirror page and quickly test your latency across all of the locations. UK will again most likely perform the best (lowest). After you're settled on a test server location then head over to the Auto Speed Test to schedule automatic testing. Once you've gathered some results (data) visit My Results and My Average to get a better understanding of the results. Hope this helps, please let me know if you have any other questions. Frank225 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven WJ Richards Posted April 14 Author CID Share Posted April 14 Thank you for your advice CA3LE. However, I receive my internet via a dish from a transmitter not far away. My service provider explained to me that my internet is tunnelled to a specific server called Dedicated server in London (I live in Wales, a few hundred miles from London). I then go out to the rest of the world from there. My internet provider explained that I would only get a true reading of the quality of service they are providing by reading the internet speed between their server and my computer. Frank225 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted April 14 CID Share Posted April 14 Reading the speed between their server and your computer is not really testing the internet speed. Doesn't matter how you connect. You're not testing the Internet if you don't actually go out to the Internet. Testing against your ISP's servers isn't going out to the Internet. That's why TestMy.net is here. Your ISP has control over the quality of peering and bandwidth in and out of their network. If your ISP is in the UK, then it should be a very quick hop over to my UK servers. As long as your ISP is delivering that won't affect the final result. There would be little to no difference if all the connections between are running with capacity available. Any good ISP in that scenario would have at least multiple 10 GbE peers, meaning that the route between the ISP and TestMy.net should never be the weakest link... unless it's over capacity. It's a red flag if an ISP tells you that only testing against their server's is accurate. And like I said, it doesn't make sense in the first place. Your ISP's servers are not the Internet, that's your host's network... before the Internet. It's a part of the Internet but if that's your host, their network is your network. A step above your local area network but we're not really out to the wider Internet. TestMy.net is actually testing your connection out to the Internet. Pgoodwin1 and Frank225 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank225 Posted October 11 CID Share Posted October 11 11 October 2024 39º N 31º W Hello Steven WJ Richards. I hope you are well My internet communications 10 to 15 years ago was unique in two ways. The first one was done with ISP two satelite dIshes link with 210 meters on 80 meters self supported towers for ADSL distribution. The second was earth to satelite geostationary orbit, at 35,786 km (22,236 mi) in altitude above Earth's equator to earth for ADSL distribution.I never mesured the latency but was high. The internet speed was 4Mbps and we paid for 12 Mbps. Your internet is from 4G ? What is your internet speed? What is the latency at TMN London Server (auto mode) ? 4G is better than ADSL. Do you have sheep or goats in your paradise? and your antenna is safe from the animals ? I am also testing with TMN and this was my last results and observation: Today, the Amazon Latency test at TMN and Ookla Speedtest is similar for London. We don't know if Amazon have servers in the countries with Shopps/Stores-Business ? All the tests below was done by wireless with ISP router and DNS. (5m from the router in a strait line) With warm Wi-Fi 5 on Intel modem AC 20-160Mhz on the PC and the router with 160 MHz bandwidth channel, 1733 Mhz all the results should be a little bit better. We factory reset the router 4 times a year. We use TMN server in London for speed test because it is closer to my router LINX LON1 - 195.66.224.91 - LINX LON2 - 195.66.236.91 I hope you answer my questions. Kind regards. CA3LE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven WJ Richards Posted October 12 Author CID Share Posted October 12 Hello Frank, thank you for your comprehensive and informative reply, it is much appreciated. My internet connects to a radio transmitter tower across the Towy Valley about 2 miles away via a dish on my house. I am pleased to inform you that, since my last post, my internet provider has replaced the dish with an upgraded one. Here are my new speeds!!! CA3LE and Frank225 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted October 12 CID Share Posted October 12 Do some more testing here. Your last TMN results I see we’re in April. Compare it to the results above. Frank225 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank225 Posted October 13 CID Share Posted October 13 17 hours ago, Steven WJ Richards said: Hello Frank, thank you for your comprehensive and informative reply, it is much appreciated. My internet connects to a radio transmitter tower across the Towy Valley about 2 miles away via a dish on my house. I am pleased to inform you that, since my last post, my internet provider has replaced the dish with an upgraded one. Here are my new speeds!!! 17 hours ago, Steven WJ Richards said: Hello Frank, thank you for your comprehensive and informative reply, it is much appreciated. My internet connects to a radio transmitter tower across the Towy Valley about 2 miles away via a dish on my house. I am pleased to inform you that, since my last post, my internet provider has replaced the dish with an upgraded one. Here are my new speeds!!! Thank you very much for the information about your setup ( Bink Air Fibre ?) in your beautiful country of Wales . I remember Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger and Tom Jones in the land of your fathers. I mentioned 210 meters and wanted to say 210 km between the two dishes. My internet is Fiber Optic FTTH, with speeds of 500/100 Mbps coming from the station connected to a submarine cable. Your Latency 13ms and Latency under load 16 ms and 15ms is excellent and more speed with the new dish. I think 153/38 Mbps is more than enough. I hope to see your TMN speedtests in the servers of | East Coast US, New York, USA | North America - Toronto, CA | Europe, London, GB | Congratulations. CA3LE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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